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A Thrilling Ride
Thanks to Ed Owen for this nice review on Instagram.
The title is catnip to anyone who has ever set anything in print. Brilliant, entertaining but occasionally exhausting book centered around a torrent of puns, non (bon?) sequiturs, distorted song lyrics and cliches broken apart and reassembled as jokes.
One section on a Hokusai print I checked on Wikipedia to see that sections had been pulled and used as dialogue. I don’t see this as plagiarism, more a meta-carnivalesque melting pot of ideas and language.
Loren is a journalist, attempting to write about a writer while a dadaist terrorist group executes writers all over France and London. But if you are looking for a traditionally comprehensible story, this is not for you.
It’s a thrilling ride that reminded me of Tibor Fischer, Thomas Pynchon, Richard Brautigan or Patricia Lockwood. It’s relentlessly funny, bursting with wordplay and jokes of syntax, homophones and Lou Reed lyrics. It’s refreshing, dazzling.
Also, an impossibility for AI to replicate. It’s too intricate and multi layered. And what a sleeve! A great start to the year.
Freedom and Mischief
I am really honoured that Toby Litt — a writer whose work I have greatly admired ever since Adventures in Capitalism was published in 1996 — has accepted to blurb the forthcoming reprint of my debut novel, Loren Ipsum:
“Word for word, pun for pun, and twist for twist, Loren Ipsum is the most inventive and entertaining novel I’ve read in years. This is writing and plotting with a deep sense of freedom and mischief, and God we need more of both”.
A Surreal Highbrow Rollercoaster
Thanks to writer and artist Sophie Parkin for describing Loren Ipsum as a “surreal highbrow rollercoaster”.
Thanks also to Sam Jordison of Galley Beggar Press for the shout-out:
“I also didn’t want to major on Andrew Gallix’s Loren Ipsum, since my delight at actually being – in a suitably roundabout way – featured in the story renders me unable to comment on it with any objectivity. But I’d love you to get hold of a copy of that too.”
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A Metafictional Thriller
A Book of the Year
It’s That Kind of Book
A Wickedly Funny Literary Slasher
Turpin-Goulet
The name of a minor character in my novel, Loren Ipsum, was inspired by this cool signage I often walk past on rue Letort in the 18th arrondissement of Paris. (Instead of Goulet-Turpin, his surname is Turpin-Goulet.)
That Was the Week That Was
From The Guardian:
ANDREW GALLIX 